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Armona, California

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93202. The Survey maps it on the Hanford quadrangle. 4,274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Armona within Kings County

Then and now

1926 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Armona, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Armona, surveyed 1926

Population over time

2 figures

Armona grew from 4,156 to 4,274 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,156
20204,274+118 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Armona between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,255 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unitnot named
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armona in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2017Thunderstorm WindArmona$10,000California Highway Patrol reported a tree fell onto a vehicle near the intersection of 13th Ave. and Houston Ave. near Hanford.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindArmona$1,000California Highway Patrol reported tree debris on State Route 198 near Hanford-Armona Rd.
February 2024FloodArmona-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Dylan Way in Armona.
May 2019FloodArmona-Posts on Twitter indicated flooding in a neighborhood in southwest Hanford.
March 1998Funnel CloudArmona-Observed by 2 NWS employees and spotter. Hail ranging in size from 1/4 to 1/2 inch occurred 1 mile east of the funnel.

Every storm recorded in Kings County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Orion (historical)1.8 miles17
Grangeville1.9 miles17
Fort Roosevelt2.7 miles17
Hanford3.4 miles17
Kimble (historical)3.6 miles17
Pitco3.7 miles17
Home Garden3.9 miles17
Lemoore4.1 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ArmonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673381The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1652665. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.